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idaugh
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4 years ago
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Understanding Premium Per User and Pro licensing

Hi all,   My company has Power BI pro licenses dished out on a per-user basis.    We have an "administrative" account that we have given a Premium Per User license to. I used this account to crea...
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    Greg_Deckler
    4 years ago

    idaugh The way it is supposed to work is that if you put a report in a PPU workspace then only users with a PPU license can access it. If you put the report in a Premium (non-PPU) workspace then anyone can access it. If you are running into a situation where you have a report in a PPU workspace and have Pro-only users or Free users accessing it then don't bet that the situation won't be corrected. 

     

    And, right after posting this, I found this about Apps: Publish an app in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
4 years ago

idaugh Actually, according to the link if you scroll down and read through the Apps portion and licensing it indicates that Pro users can access a published App. It was always my understanding that everyone needed PPU in a PPU workspace but apparently Apps are an exception?

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powerbihelp87
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1 year ago

Whats the latest 2025 verdict?